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Solo Exhibitions
Faces That Transcend, Solo Exhibition, Leonard J. Hansen Art Gallery of Englewood Public Library, Englewood, NJ, June 2016
Nature Observed, Solo Exhibition, Edna Kawulitzki Art Gallery of Tenafly Public Library, Tenafly, NJ, August-September 2015
Transcendent Faces, Solo Exhibition, Borghi Fine Art Gallery, Englewood, NJ, May 2011

Group Exhibitions
Monmouth Museum Juried Photography Exhibition, Lincroft, NJ, September 2019
Inside Small Show, Stable Gallery, Ridgewood, NJ, August 2019
The Big Painting Show, Belmar Art Center, Belmar, NJ, July 2019
The Nature Show, Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ, September 2017
Art & Soul, Dress For Success Hudson County: Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ, May 2016
New Jersey Small Works Show, Mikhail Zakin Gallery, 2016, 2013, 2011, 2009, 2008, 2002, 2000
ArtSplash 2015, Rockaway Artists Alliance, Queens, NY, September 2015
?Face It? The Face in Contemporary Art, OnSite: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY, June 2015
The Art of Healing, Englewood Hospital & Medical & TASCO, Englewood, NJ, June-October 2014
Nature Intertwined, Vanguard Surgical Center Art Exhibition, Maywood, NJ, March 2014
Blank Canvas Benefit, Visual Art Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ, 2012
Small Works Show, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY, 2011
Small Works Border Walls Show, Boltax Gallery, Shelter Island, NY, 2008

Teaching Artist / Creative Consultant
Teaching Artist Residency, Dwight-Englewood School, Englewood, NJ, 2017-20
Teaching Artist Residency, Academy of Our Lady of Mt Carmel, Tenafly, NJ, 2016-20
Teaching Artist and Creative Consultant: Mercy Center, South Bronx, NYC, 1993-to present
Creator of Peace By Piece, Traveling Exhibitions from 2002 – to present (peacebypiece.info)
Interior Design Team Member of the new Mercy Center facility, 2002 & 2014
Cultural Arts Director Demarest Public Schools, NJ, 1996-2007
Teaching Artist Panelist, Center for Art Education, NYC, 2003

Awards / Grants / Residencies
Susan K. Black Foundation Grant, CO, 2018-19
Artist Grant and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, September 2013
Circle of Mercy Award, NYC, 2008
Susan K. Black Foundation Grant, CO, 2006
Northern Valley Educational Foundation 7 Towns Grant, NJ, 2005
Bronx Council on the Arts Grant, Bronx Outreach Project, NYC, 2005
Northern Valley Educational Foundation Mini-Grant, NJ, 2004
Bronx Council on the Arts Grant, Bronx Outreach Project, NYC, 2004
The Center for Arts Education New York PAAP Grant, NYC, 2003

TV/Film
PBS Sesame Street, Art Consultant: Lookalike Productions, 2010
‘Let It Out’, Documentary film premiered at Beijing Olympics, Interviewee: Lookalike Productions, 2008
‘Emmanuel’s Gift’, Documentary film, Creative Consultant: Lookalike Productions, 2005
WXEL Public Television, Peace By Piece and Saint Andrew’s School: South Florida Today, 2004
ABC-TV Good Morning America: 10 part series on Organic Gardening, 1995